What have you learnt about technologies from the process

of constructing this product?

For all the images in my magazine I used my own panasonic lumix G10 camera. As it was my own camera I had a good understanding on how it worked and the settings I needed to choose to achieve the images I wanted.

It produced clean professional images which I could use. I didn’t need to re-take any images as I had enough to play with. Only disadvantage was the lighting. I had some difficulties in the garage when I was shooting the band. This was because when the with the door was closed nature light was limited. However the cameras flash coped with this well and still managed to produce clear images. At the scooter fair when I was photographing scooters the camera capture this beautifully and produced a range of interesting photographs.

To improve the photography I would of taken a tri-pod with me to the shoots. The stability of the tri-pod would of enhanced my photographs even more. It would of allowed to me adjust angles without making them blurry.

Camera

For all my editing I used www.pixlr.com. Once I had taken the photographs for my magazine I began

uploading different ones onto pixlr and began experimenting with their editing tools. It took a while to get used to it as I haven’t had much experience with using it before. However once I discovered where all the setting was I was able to create a wide variety of editing styles. The more edits I did, the more they improved. Pixlr tools suited all of my needs. I got a good understanding on how it worked and what tools helped to develop my images (also which ones didn’t). One of my main advantages with pixrl was I was able manipulate a image by swapping a face of one of the models. This tool allowed me to improve my image so effectively that I choose it to be my front cover.

Disadvantage to pixlr was I struggled to save the images to ‘JPEG’ with the correct image size when I edited on a apple MAC. This meant I lost some of my edits as I wasn’t able to upload them anywhere. After this I just edited on a windows laptop, however this was limited as I couldn’t use a MAC if I needed to.

Editing

Publisher I decided to use Microsoft publisher to produce my cover, contents page

and double page spread. I have worked with publisher before therefore I was familiar with how it works and so this sped up the production. What I liked about publisher is how easy it is to layer images, pictures and fonts together. This made it the perfect software for producing a magazine. I had no issue in adding in several elements which was important as pages in a magazine have many. It was so easy to save the edits I had created as a JPEG so I could transfer and upload them somewhere else. Another advantage with publisher is it allows you to change page size. This meant for my double page spread I could adjust it to A3 and make the two pages side by side. The use of textboxes and shapes on publisher allowed me to experiment with the columns and shaping on all the pages before adding in the elements. Its also very easy to go back on a edit and make changes.

One disadvantage with publisher is on different versions (2007 and 2010 for example) have the same fonts differently. So if I began creating a issue on a 2007 publisher software and finished it on a 2010, the fonts would vary. This meant in some cases it took my longer to find fonts which was suitable.